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Rocky lointa H a, a i
R. N. SUTIH.1It'IN', uditor.
THURSDAY, rV4.1:BtE, V,,WK. r .
TO THE BEADING WORLD.
For ten long years the Montana farmer
has toiled on in his quiet, unassun~ng way,
isolated and alone, without the councils of
his neighbor, dependant solely upon his own
experience, and what information he could
gather from the result of experiments in
a soil and climate foreign to his own. From
one experiment to another, he has struggled
on amid the many privations and difficulties
that have risen up on every side to thwart
the hardy pioneer; step by step, ganuing
confidence in his strength and ability, and
year by year developing the marvelous rich
ness of our soil, at last demonstrating be
yond the possibilitjy of a doubt that our
Territory possesses vast agricultural wealth.
Having founded a genial home here among
the rugged mountains, he with pleasure ex
tends to his fellow farmers in less favored
localities, a hearty invitation to come and'
join their fortunes with his.
To this end; to encourage the immigra
tion of a thrifty and industrious population
to our rich, alluvial valleys; to aid in the
farther development of our resources; to
foster with jealous care our agricultural,
horticultural, stock-growing, mineral and
educational interests, we to-day unfurl
the pioneer agricultural newspaper of the
great Northwestern Territories. Promising
nothing more than a manly effort in the
cause of truth, justice and right, we will
labor with dilligence to reach the highest
standard of excellence fixed by a people
possessed of as much general intelligence as
those of any other section of the American
:'Union. We have fixed our rates low in
order to place within reach of the poorest
peasant in the land a first-class journal;
one which we hope to make a welcome vis
itor, gladeling the hearts, reviving the
energies and brightening the intellects of
the inmates of both palace and hovel. It
shall be our endeavor to advance in every
possible way, the material interests of every
Tbrahch df industry`, and thereby" build iup-a
family newspaper that will be a complete
index to the lives, habits, interests and in
dustrial pursuits of a people whose patron
age and favor we hope to win and retain
through merrit alone. We shall ever be
found boldly and fearlessly championing
the cause of the sons of toil--commending
the good, denouncing the wrong--unawed
by Lear and unswerved by favors.
To-clay has been proclaimed by the Chief
Magistrate of the Nation, and by Ills Excel
lency,. B. Fi Potts, Governor of Montana,
to be a day set apart for thanksgiving and
prayer. Our Territory having enjoyed a
aesson of remarkable health, peace, and
prosperity, it is meet that her people should
lay aside the toils, cares, and perplexities of
business, .-and unite in a day of hearty
thaiksgiving to God for such blessings, such
pleasures, such comforts and joys as have
been received at His benificent hands. A
more fitting time could not have been chos
an. The season's labors have just closed.
Our granaries are running over with plenty.
Our store-houses are piled with commodi
ties. In fact, all the necessaries for sustain
Ing our physki Sl existe,;ce are heaped at our
doors.. The mills, hid avay in the moun
tains, whose restless throbs have kept the
.neIlborlig hills alive night and day; the
plefk ~ai shovel, which have, been clicking
iand riagi constantly in removing
boRlders, d gtavel in our gulches;
aihotld be bushed for once, wlhia the miner
Senjroys' a day of genuine rest. The husband
,man, wh'ose crop is garnered, the herdsman,
whore stoci have been driven to winter pas
ture, by thliea occupation being the most in
timately conn.ected with the work of the
Creator, Wjll peyhaps be the most willing to
Admit their doendence; yet, all are alike
aW lied tfrom HLly tountlfu hband. We may
be satisfied; there utay' be something
left uad.pe that we would have been glad to
have hahed ; we may not have accom
plished all that we wished; otlr stores may
Snot be aa large aswe bad : hped; our busd
ess may not be what we like; our position,
social or political standing may not be just
what we think it should--in short, we may
t be satistled, may not be content, nay
for oU,, I 'vb, ,(ii' or h ({l+'!"j fliitl.'i
tlar~lllýý iV I;SS fI. n' .l sY R(3;'%6 with ice'; 4
that we 't !e r+;t?::t the purxi r oun~uaiiu
air and enjoy the genial sunshine. Do we
notfeel thankful that we have still an op
portunity to do another good deed before
we are called to our final account? Have
we not something to be thankful for.? Have
we not won at least one victory over the evil
temptations that lure us away from the path
of duty? As true sons and daughters of
high-born parents, let us all with one accord
spend this day in thanksgiving and prayer.
THE death of Judge Lawrence, which
occurred very suddenly on the 16th, will be
read with regret by all who knew him. He
was an old resident of Helena, a good law
yer and highly esteemed citizen, and a val
iant soldier in the army of temperance.
We publish this week a portion of the an
nual address of the Master of the Territorial
Grange. The remainder will be forthcom
ing next week. It takes up a large amount
of valuable space, but is of itself very im
portant and interesting and will, we believe,
give as much satisfaction as anything we
coubl produce.
GENERAL NEWS.
It has been ascertained that the ship Or
pheus collided with the ill-fated Pacific,
causing her wreck.
The National Railroad Convention met at
St. Louis, on the 23d.
Vice President Wilson died at Washing
tonl on the 22d.
The Great Pacific Race will be run to-day,
provided the weather is favorable.
Thiere has been forty thousand deaths
among the inhabitants of the Fiji Island;;
within the last four months,
It is reported that the epizooty, which has
been affecting the horses in the vicinity of
Omaha, has reached Salt Lake.
Ten years ago Bret IIarte was a poor
printer.
The epizooty is prevailing among the
horses of Kentucky. Cholera is also raing
among the hogs.
The inauigural meeting of the Colorado
Blooded Stock Association was to have been
held at Trinadad last week. We have not
yet been apprised as to the result.
The Southern Pacific are mustering their
forces for another siege at the doors of Coil
gress.
The Central Government for Alsace-Lo
raine will be established at Berlin.
Mr. Henry M. Stanley, when last leard
from, was at Ulagalla, in Uganda, Central
Africa. IIe holds that'LakeN'Yanza is one
vast body of water;, instead of a sucession
of small lakes, as supposed by Dr. Living
stene.
The foul stench of the Brooklin scanlal is
again to be wafted to the nostrils or" the
American public. Mrs. Moulton, htving
been dropped from the roll of Plymouth
Church, rises in the dignity of her wbman
hood and asks that the matter be considered
by an association of ministers of the Con
gregational Church. The good name of the
Plymouth Pastor is more dangerouslythreat
cned than ever.
Trouble still continues on the Texas bor
der.
It is uncertain whether Chandler'will rec
ommend the transfer of the Indian Bureau
to the War Department or not.
Gov. Thayers, of Wyoming, in his mes
sage to the Legislature of that Territory,
says there is a balance in the treasury of
$8,776.36, with no Territorial debt. The
assessable property of the Territory is shown
to be $8,648,000,~,,n increase ot $1,500,000
since last year. Among the many things
referred to in his brief message, the Gov
ernor speaks of woman's suiibrage as an
experiment that reflects credit upon the first.
Legislature ia adopting it.
But a day ago the world. was°- ras.tic over
"Silver Threads Among.-the Gold." Now
we have "Only One Gray-Hair, Darling."
Cardinal Mauniwg holds out 4o aope for
the removal of the interdlet .rbW. g Ro
uan Catholic to join the order o Good
'Tewplara.
TIegreat foun' mile race at ie F ,ana o,
which was to have been run Nov. I18h, has
bcoa postponed on account of wet weather,.
m e2n#3 t nIo +,: . ic(inity of Sheffield rl
11:e dioi.e, inc',Ile:vi inage to property. P,
I y c ;l1ý,rics ale', work arc iloodedl gi
t.,&wi vk .l," T;' .eratlves temllpora- u:
rii out of employl ent. , Oa
Ft the 25th, the La Sal', one of the finest
veý,ls on the lakes, went'cyshore and was hi
wrtked at Two Rivers Poi.t, Lake 1Michi- ill
iga; and next comes the \eart-rending ri
new :of the loss of the steaimr Placiic. ct
Shevent down on the night of the 4th. off f.
CapFlatt. ry. carrying to a water}" grave n
one undred and seventy-one per,:) s. s
ProfTice's prophecies of a "cold we(lge" ' l
that -ill sweep annirmal life from our coun
try. cearcely have we recovered fronmt te
firighl of this prophecy ere we have the g
news f the strong probability of a great
wheaifanine.
Crile is still abroad in the land. Phila- r
delphi has the most brutal murder of the t
age.
The ublic debt has decreased four mill- I
ions duing the month of October, and tenll
and a qarter millions since June 30th.
The I. S. Grand Jury have been making
it warramor the whisky ring of St. Louis.
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AOMIING WHEAT FAMINE.
The Mck Lane Express said some week
since thu it was doubtfitl ihether the
United Sttes could supply all tl;:e wlEtat
nee(led b Great Britain be.tre the next
harvest, ad now the Lo:ldon .Morning Post,
of the 23dult., has a Be:iin dispatch, say
ing:
"The dpression of trade is felt so keenly
by the insitstrial classes that the govern
ment lhas een requested, as a means of pre
venting ante, distress, to resort to the mIeas
ure su'cesfutily adopted in the last two
years, nalely, the establishment of loan
banks. 'Th government has not yet shown
much inelintion to accede to the request.
Serious disress is anticipated aumong the
industrial w rking-classes during the coin
ing winter, and apprehensions are enter
taihed of a cisis in financial circles. The
same paper: lso says IRussian correspon
dents to the erman newspapers give dis
tressing aecbunts of the unparalleleled failure
f this ygar'! harvest. Never, before, it is
asserted, hana failure been so genera1l in
Russia, both ni geographical extent and in
covprellensivmness in regard to crops. The
Russians are sill familiar with the distress
resulting frolmfailing crops, from their ex
perience Qf tlheSamara fiunine. That, how
ever, was merey a local fnamine. The pres
ent is general. The entire cultivated zone
is deprived of is expected harvest, firom
Oral to Crimea,and from Tambotd to Po
dalskete is the sine tale, and there is no
prospect of help.for there is no one to help.
All are groaning under the same load. In
other years, if tlhire was failure it attacked
only one species of cereals, or roots, or
grass, but this yerr all the crops have suf
fered alike."
Russia has hithnrto been the great rival
of the United Stats in supplying the world
with wheat. Not it is evident that she will
scarcely have food enough of all kinds to
keep her people from starving ; she will
have to*import fran other countries. In
the United States 4ie winter wheat crop is
farl below the.avertge';-the rains decreased
the spring wheat cop of the Northwest 20
per cent. in amnonit. All- Pihe indications
point to a wheat fanine before the next hur
vest; while both in this country and Europe
the ftill plowing and winter wheat sowing
has been greatly interrupted by stor~ts and
the late season. WheMt will be wheat by
next June.
BUSBY'S IRONI WEDDING.
Busby, of Trenton, celebrated his "iron
wedding" one day last ,eek, and he invited
about one hundred and twenty guests to the
wedding.
Of course, each person felt 'compelled to
bring a present of some kind, and each one
i(d. When Mr. and Mrs. Smith came they
Sjdcd Lqsby a pair of flat-irons. When
Mr. and Mrs. Jones arrived they also had a
pair of flat-irons. All bands laughed at the
coincidenoce. There was even greater merri-.
ment when the ,.rowns arrived with two
pairs of fla.irous. But when.Mr. and Mrs.
i.t.uesop, oae in with *no her pair qf flat
irons the laughter became perfectly convul
sive. There was, however, something less
amusing about it when the Thompsons ar
rived with four fltt-irons wrapped in brown
paper. And Busliy's face :ictually looked
grave wheln the three Johnson girls were
ushered into the parlor carrying a latt-ir(,u
apiece.
Each one of the .succeding sixty gues ts
brought flat-irquo, and there was no break
in the contnifity, until old Mr. Curry ar
rive(l fr.rii T.fl ' adeiphia with a casMt-Irnn
cow-bell.'N- w, 'usby had no cartly use
for a cow-bell, anrd at any other time L:e'
would have treated such a present with
scorn. But now he was act ually gra:teful to
Mr. Curry, and he was about to embraco'
him, when the Walringhamns came in with a
new kind of doub)le-pointed flat-irons 'itlh
wooden handles. And all the rest (;f tlio
guests brought the same articles, excep t
IMr. Rugby, and he Ilnl with himn a .}eial tn
staand for holding l:at-irons. Blusy got
nlmalder and m adder every minute, and by
the tihe all the guests had arrived, he wa.::
nearlyiunsane with rage, and he wenit up ti
bed leaaing his wife to entertain the com
pany.
In the 'morning they coe.tcd ;-p the
spoils and foind that they had two ,o l.undr(c
and thirteen tla-iro' s, ohe stalnd ant t co.,;'-.
hell. The B"by. have cut the Smiths:;, :ai
Browns, and iohiiniis, and the rest c:,tir.'
!y, for ,they are colvin:cedl that there Wa' n.
-'e-concertedI de.igil tlo play a trick:, ul.ja
them.
The fact; is, how( V( r, that thf, h1:'cdl.:rl.r
store in the 1:lace a.lind an overstotk of Init
irons, and sxl(1 them at an: absurdly leev
figure, and Busby's guest::s nanimnou:-ly
went for the cheapest they coule d find, n s
people always (10do on,1 such ocasions.. L.utsy
thinks he will not cel.chrat.e his i! .icer wed
- ding'."
.OTICE OF SALE OF REAL i Ts.TA' 1i'
GUAIRDINWA'S fi'AIE
No. t c is. heebhy i; :, i:t il l.l::.: ce oft.r
order of the Third' .Jiilicia l Di,ilt iet iourt in aul. fi.r
MeN.g'her (.'onty, Mollt:tan '3 ni jto'ry, ilatoe ,ion 1t.
28th ~lay of Alu il, 1575, in the nmtttcr of Ite 1.sii sa:
of IHenry ('Clplper, deceuased, on the ~l 1,licatin of
fohn 1i. iwedi, i'r., GuiLidi(in of li"ry .i. t.l,-.
per, Eli C. Chlaler, George W. (-: I er oad Ma::h
M. Chapper, miiior IheirA ofL buit dt1.cui td, ii. Il, t
,ale of tiherlel -tsate }poationed to ,aid latrs I y
the Probate ('ourt of .,ieaigher ( ut.lty, , 'M. t., I
undtlrsignetd G(ua:lrdia of a-..id ki .r s i i ll ell t.t lafh
lie untctiou, to the highcst hidder for c'' ah, 1. t:Yjeut
to contirm'nlalion by said )istrfit Court, o :it : .l. ta y,
the 30th day of Deeallher, A. . 1). 75, IeiW'(t Ito
hours otf 9 o'clock, A. Mi. aindI 5 o'cl];ack, 1 1. t 1
said day, at iprin.gtowin, in (';ae Unlth, .',.:lr
(Co.unty, MoInttna Terri:'ory, al the right, tite a ,d
iltere',t of saft mlin.or hairs hi at:'ad to Il.e flilov, iig
described property ,il tul in M Ic.,gher lcunty, t-v.
tana, to-wit:
An undivided two-fift'lnthi (_-I;) of all lie prop
erty belonging to ~alct is know'n as the Iell "t,::u
andi Avalanche Diteh ('oatllatny of NMeI:gher C(ountn,
consisting of thtel,11i G .. te and Avala(tche ditcih
which oonveyis water a1' in Vhi ' . w r In beand Ava;ttclt
Gunlcthns to the foot-hill: iLe.r (ave Gulch; nnili;,:
ground. complrisnitglulch, bar ad bill dig€ igs, ii.t
the property known as the lBosey and ('ahill ranches,
together with all and singuiar the btauchi.es, tent
ments anti aippurtenances thelreunto ialolging or iu
any wise tplpertainilhg.
Terims and conditions of salc One-third of tho
purchase money to be )aid on (ay of saile; one-thirdl
in three months,. and bahelance ir six mouths llo.or
day of sale.
For full particulars and description of property
apply to J.. V. Stallordl. Administrator of said
estate, at Canyon Ferry, Meagher County, MI. T.
JOIhN M. IEW EIJ,, Sr., Guardian.
BiJ' ,J. E. Murray, Attorney in Itat.
Also, at same time nd pluce and on same terms
and conditions, Lucy A. Taurpenning and Mary jE.
Forney, heirs at ltac of said deceased, will Fell an
undivided one-fifteenth (1-15), of said above describ
ed property, the some hhaving been apportioned to
them byr the Probate Court of Meagher County,
Montana Territory..
The whole interest to be sold amounts to one-fllfth
(1-5) of the entire property of said company.
La'U.:Y A. 'J'Alt.P+:laNG.
MARY E. FOR1NEY.
By J. E. Murray, AttOrney in ftact.
,Datetc Diamond City, Nov. 24th. 1875-4t
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
In the P1robte Court of Meagher County, Montana.
Territory. . ' Y
In the matter of the Estate )
of NotleOe of
Henry Clapper, deceased Final Settlement.
Notice is hereby given to the creditors and otilhers
interested in the abid estate, tlat the nndertgiga-d
will nmalke final settlOnmeit of the same, begirC the.
Probate Court of said counf'y, at Dinmopil City,
on Mtonday, *-ecenier 27th I. .
d V. bSTAFFORD, Adni'r.
November 25th, 1875-4t
A MINIsTRITOR S NOICCE.
In the Probate Court of Meaghr' County, Montana.
Territory.
In the matter o€ the Estatet . otice of
Noah Harris, ceasod. . inal Settlement
Notice is hereby giv'en to the creditors and others,
interested in the' said estate, that the nidersigned
will mkke final settlement of thb same before the.
Probate Co.urt said eoouty, at 1iamond ,City, A.
the 6th day of Jawuary, ., 18.6.
November 9514. 1075-44 t
E. .'TRA . Phototgraper, Cutler strct
the head of. fY0 Hel , Tontaua, does all k`"
af work in the style. Keeps, also, on handl
a large variety steroacopic views of uiouutaln.
scenery.